I was reading this today in the Age yesterday and could not believe it:
MOST current plasma television sets would be banned from sale in Australia within a year under onerous mandatory energy requirements recommended in a report commissioned by the Federal Government.
The consulting firm Digital CEnergy, which prepared the report for the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office, also recommends a second tier of even tougher restrictions that would then ban almost all current LCD models from the market in April 2011. [The Age]
The LCD and Plasma TVs are everywhere in Australia. If you want to piss off voters before an election than ban their TV. I discussed this with my Aussie colleagues and not one of them had anything good to say about it and all of them opined that if the greens don’t like LCD and Plasma TVs because of emissions than let the government build nuclear power plants. I own an old CRT TV so I guess I can brag about my "Green" credentials now.
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